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Sea Monkeys - A Memory Book (Paperback)
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Sea Monkeys - A Memory Book (Paperback)
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List price R424
Loot Price R377
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You Save R47 (11%)
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* Bowling lessons with a hunchback. A bizarre first-grade teacher
who hallucinates in class. A tragically innocent family blind-sided
by flower power, and the salvation of soul music at a radio station
straight out of a Quentin Tarantino version of The Twilight Zone.
These are just a few of the luminous characters and conjurings Kris
Saknussemm delivers in his kaleidoscopic Sea Monkeys--the story of
his growing up in the counterculture San Francisco Bay Area and
central California in the 1960s.
Known for his genre-bending works Zanesville and Private Midnight,
Saknussemm now gives us a highly original take on the nonfiction
memoir, in which he shatters the stained glass windows of his
father's church and mixes the pieces with ghost cartoons, the
Cronkite contradictions of Civil Rights demonstrations, and ads for
laxatives during a strange hiatus in American sanity when Sly Stone
and Perry Como could both be in the Top 10. Honest, funny, and at
times heartbreaking, Sea Monkeys is the no-holds-barred tale of one
of our most exciting contemporary authors' own coming of age, and
the perfect follow-up to Saknussemm's Zanesville, which Booklist
hailed as one of the most creative, edgy, and entertaining novels
spawned in a decade.
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